Rapid Development

Description

Corporate and commercial software-development teams all want solutions for one important problem—how to get their high-pressure development schedules under control. In RAPID DEVELOPMENT, author Steve McConnell addresses that concern head-on with overall strategies, specific best practices, and valuable tips that help shrink and control development schedules and keep projects moving. Inside, you’ll find:

• A rapid-development strategy that can be applied to any project and the best practices to make that strategy work
• Candid discussions of great and not-so-great rapid-development practices—estimation, prototyping, forced overtime, motivation, teamwork, rapid-development languages, risk management, and many others
• A list of classic mistakes to avoid for rapid-development projects, including creeping requirements, shortchanged quality, and silver-bullet syndrome
• Case studies that vividly illustrate what can go wrong, what can go right, and how to tell which direction your project is going
• RAPID DEVELOPMENT is the real-world guide to more efficient applications development.
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Sample Content

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Part I: EFFICIENT DEVELOPMENT
  • Chapter 1: Welcome to Rapid Development
  • Chapter 2: Rapid-Development Strategy
  • Chapter 3: Classic Mistakes
  • Chapter 4: Software-Development Fundamentals
  • Chapter 5: Risk Management
• Part II: RAPID DEVELOPMENT
  • Chapter 6: Core Issues in Rapid Development
  • Chapter 7: Lifecycle Planning
  • Chapter 8: Estimation
  • Chapter 9: Scheduling
  • Chapter 10: Customer-Oriented Development
  • Chapter 11: Motivation
  • Chapter 12: Teamwork
  • Chapter 13: Team Structure
  • Chapter 14: Feature-Set Control
  • Chapter 15: Productivity Tools
  • Chapter 16: Project Recovery
• Part III: BEST PRACTICES
  • Introduction to Best Practices
  • Chapter 17: Change Board
  • Chapter 18: Daily Build and Smoke Test
  • Chapter 19: Designing for Change
  • Chapter 20: Evolutionary Delivery
  • Chapter 21: Evolutionary Prototyping
  • Chapter 22: Goal Setting
  • Chapter 23: Inspections
  • Chapter 24: Joint Application Development (JAD)
  • Chapter 25: Lifecycle Model Selection
  • Chapter 26: Measurement
  • Chapter 27: Miniature Milestones
  • Chapter 28: Outsourcing
  • Chapter 29: Principled Negotiation
  • Chapter 30: Productivity Environments
  • Chapter 31: Rapid-Development Languages (RDLs)
  • Chapter 32: Requirements Scrubbing
  • Chapter 33: Reuse
  • Chapter 34: Signing Up
  • Chapter 35: Spiral Lifecycle Model
  • Chapter 36: Staged Delivery
  • Chapter 37: Theory-W Management
  • Chapter 38: Throwaway Prototyping
  • Chapter 39: Timebox Development
  • Chapter 40: Tools Group
  • Chapter 41: Top-10 Risks List
  • Chapter 42: User-Interface Prototyping
  • Chapter 43: Voluntary Overtime
• Bibliography

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